Quote Originally Posted by DetroiterOnTheWestCoast View Post
Those are some very good points. There's little debate about Downtown and Midtown being on the road to recovery, with numerous renovations of long abandoned buildings and some degree of new construction. But whenever I look up some address on Google and see an aerial map, I'm struck by the astounding amount of vacant land in "booming" Midtown. It really brings home how deep the hole is into which the city has sunk.
Also, remember in 1990, the redevelopment/gentrification efforts of GM were peaking in the New Center area. There were many degree holding 25-34 year olds living in the New Center. It was a more African-American mixture than those downtown or in midtown today, but there were probably close to a thousand college educated young adults in that area at the time. Sadly, some of the largest buildings are now abandoned [[like on Seward and Woodward), and the tenant mix is not as affluent or well-educated.